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I know you can’t always rely on information you get from the Internet. The other day no less an authority than Abraham Lincoln was on Facebook saying, “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet”. See, we must be careful.

And yet sometimes what we read on the Internet is true — it just sounds made up.

Anyway, bearing that in mind, I went to what appeared to be the Liberal Party of Canada website and discovered that the young rapscallion Trudeau had been holding out on us.

Well, war would be taking it a long way. The Liberals have launched a petition to “monitor” trans fats, making it more like a peacekeeping mission.

This, of course, is fantastic news.

Why, I was just saying to a friend the other day we need more bureaucrats to manage our diet.

I’m not exactly sure how this will play out, but I for one would be thrilled to come down to breakfast one day to find a team of inspectors going through the kitchen looking for trans fat violations.

While they’re in there, maybe they could also go through the bottles of salad dressing, checking best-before dates.

Here I had been criticizing the Liberals for not being serious about the big public policy issues, but what could be more serious than ensuring we are eating right. They have also launched a petition asking us to speak up for “food security.”

The Liberals assert two to three million Canadians are “food insecure,” which they don’t define, and tens of thousands of aboriginals don’t know “when they’ll eat next,” which they don’t source.

It’s not clear from the petition if it has always been this way or if people had enough to eat when the Liberals were in power and now the Conservatives have pinched off the grocery supply lines — but back to the issue.

To address this problem, they want to bring in something called a “national food policy,” a name which might give less trusting folks the willies.